Archives for
February 2012

A glitch with an Apple store employee's iPhone SIM card has allowed his personal life to be spied on by tech bloggers. The incident happened after the employee inserted his personal SIM card into a customer's broken iPhone to repair it. The customer ...

When it comes to cars, the Ford Fiesta is considered one of the sexiest: It's won a number of awards for its sleek design and stylish exterior. But the Fiesta is also packed with intuitive and innovative technological features, such as keyless entry ...

Amazon has expanded its sales reach into sports memorabilia, the company announced on Thursday. Its new Sports Collectibles Store offers more than two million officially licensed items by the NFL, NBA, FIFA and Major League Baseball. Shoppers can sea...

Touchscreens are so yesterday’s news, but 40-inch HD displays that can handle 20 or more fingers of touch and real-time interaction with people, objects and tags? That’s something to get excited about. It’s also pretty much the description of Microso...

Tumblr may have lost a fashion director, but it has now gained an editor-in-chief. The blogging platform told The New York Times Thursday it brought on Chris Mohney, formerly Senior Vice President of content at BlackBook Media, to serve in the newly ...

Zynga, aiming to expand its advertising revenue without annoying users, is quietly experimenting with "reward advertising" on CityVille that lets players earn energy by interacting with a sponsor. Sponsors for the program, which rolled out in Decembe...

Today in Apple rumors, the company is expected to hold a "strange" event before the possible launch of the iPad 3 in March, according to a Japanese blog report. Macotakara reported that Apple is planning an event before the iPad 3 is announced, but i...

Dallas Lawrence is the chief global digital strategist for Burson-Marsteller, one of the world’s leading public relations and communications firms. He is a Mashable contributor on emerging media trends, online reputation management and digital issue ...

The 150-plus page Facebook IPO S1 filing could turn out to be one of the most extensively read documents since Walter Isaacson’s Steve Job’s biography. Everyone is poring over it, examining the details like tea leaf sediment at the bottom of a sooths...

Bounce rate is the enemy of every website -- it's the percentage of visitors that come to your page and don’t go to any others within the same site. It can be frustrating and costly, especially if you've invested time and money into SEO and paid ads ...

Brace yourself, Windows Phone users, because everything's going to change. An internal Microsoft video that was supposedly leaked to a website reveals that the entire mobile operating system will be revamped later this year to better integrate it wit...

We recently covered 10 inspiring social networks for writers that can help you extend your influence and develop your content. But what about the mainstream networks? How do you successfully raise your profile and gain a following? Six well-known aut...

While playing for the Tennessee Valley Vipers in the Arena Football League, and pursuing his dream of playing football professionally, Lewis Howes broke his wrist diving for a pass. He gutted out the rest of the season, playing through his injury, bu...

Apple is unintentionally censoring rap music and other explicit tracks downloaded using its iTunes Match service -- by replacing them with the clean versions of the same songs. According to a report in Cult of Mac -- confirmed in tests by Mashable --...

Twitter has started rolling out its enhanced brand pages to more advertisers. The social networking site -- which announced in December that it would be introducing Facebook-style brand pages for companies to customize and highlight content -- has ex...

Google has been busy documenting how the 2012 Republican primary affects search results. Newt Gringrich, for instance, experienced a huge surge in searches before winning in South Carolina. Stephen Colbert search traffic jumped ahead of all candidate...

Facebook, if nothing else, is on a social mission, wrote Mark Zuckerberg in a personal letter filed within the company's preliminary prospectus for Initial Public Offering. Zuckerberg's four-page message to potential investors provides a glimpse into...

In a hard-hitting interview (sarcasm), I dug up some exclusive responses from Groundhog Day's world famous critter, Punxsutawney Phil. Twitter account @GroundhogPhil, which has 4,400 followers, reveals how he really feels about the Feb. 2 holiday and...

The explosive growth of social media over the past four years has drastically changed how the Giants and Patriots market themselves and connect with fans compared to the two teams' most recent Super Bowl trips. "It's a whole new world compared to las...

Kieron-Scott Woodhouse was fed up with cellphones all looking alike, so he took the matter into his own hands, building his own brand of smartphone out of a solid block of organic bamboo. The 23-year-old design student at Middlesex University in the ...

Facebook's $5 billion IPO filing yesterday took the social media world by storm, but if you woke up today and logged into the social network, you probably noticed nothing's changed -- yet. Yes, Facebook Timeline is in the process of rolling out to al...

In the latest evolution of Old Spice's "what will they do next?" social media ad campaign, spokesman Terry Crews literally crashes an ad for Bounce. The brand chose Crews, a former NFL player perhaps best known as Julius, the father on Chris Rock's E...

Seth Porges is a magazine editor and the creator of Cloth, an iOS fashion app for iPhone and iPod Touch. His Twitter handle is @sethporges. App appeal is obvious. The barrier to entry? So low! The upshot of producing the next Angry Birds or beer-chug...

HBO is partnering with Miso to bring Game of Thrones fans an awesome second screen experience. Miso launched its new SideShow platform at the end of 2011. The idea is to allow fans or networks to create customizable, synchronized content to go alongs...

Facebook filing for IPO Wednesday did good for more than just the social network. Companies associated -- even tangentially -- saw their stocks soar in trading Thursday. As the largest Internet IPO to date, Facebook's plan to raise $5 billion lured i...

Google is suiting up for Super Bowl XLVI this Sunday by launching a set of football-focused features and services to help you get your game on. Game Day with Google is a site offered through Google's Inside Search. The specially-built site is a digit...

Jonathan Gardner is director of communications at ad company Vibrant Media. He has spent his career as an innovator at the nexus of media and technology, having worked in communications leadership roles and as a journalist around the world. An avalan...

American prosecutors have shut down 16 websites they accuse of illegally broadcasting live sports games and pay-per-view events over the Internet. The busts come three days before Super Bowl XLVI. The government accuses the sites of enabling viewers ...

Bouncer scanning software, developed by Google, is designed to search the Android market for software that could be malicious, the company announced Thursday on its blog. With the success of Android this year, the company says it wants to protect its...

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